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General Gardening Chat :: Skynews: Australian Scientist built 24KW magnetic generator

Author: vadims
Subject: Skynews: Australian Scientist built 24KW magnetic generator
Posted: 21 Nov '09 4:43 am (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 0

SKYNEWS VIDEO:
http://www.33energy.com/youtube.html

from the article: ... A Zero point magnetic power generator is basically a Free Energy Generator. It uses magnets, and magnetic force to induce motion.
It runs by itself, indefinitely without stopping, thus creating completely free electrical energy... this device refers to a machine that runs and produces
a larger amount of energy than it consumes. ...

What do You think?

My Garden Diaries :: RE: Morning surprise...

Author: raj_luckyonline
Subject: thanks
Posted: 20 Nov '09 5:53 am (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 3

thanks for this article thanks
Florist http://www.flowersbysuzyliu.co.uk

My Garden Diaries :: RE: Kerole's Place

Author: jack two
Subject: Catching up again
Posted: 15 Nov '09 10:41 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 54

Hi Kerole!

I could have sworn I responded to your post of 2 Nov. I know I enlarged the pics. But the evidence is against me...

Your garden is looking lovely. The moody pic through the windshield of the cherries is one of those snapshot photos that capture the beauty and reality of the view like no carefully constructed tripod shot can... love it! Your golden elms and poplers are beautiful - do you have a scientific name for the poplars? And of course your unknown blush pink rose is ravishing and perfect in its place.

It was lovely to walk - and drive! - through your garden again

My Garden Diaries :: RE: Tea Root's Journal- Part Two

Author: tea root
Subject: An autumn update...
Posted: 15 Nov '09 12:03 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 144

We're having a nice Indian summer here and by 10:00 this morning it was warm enough to work some out in the main garden. The sky was blue and the sun bright, and I started with picking some weeds out of the strawberry patch and noted the 'Bouquet' dill growing among it. It had been awhile since I'd weeded and there were many of them, but most not very big. I pulled out the dead pumpkin vine and dug up the rose bush and 'Moonshine' yarrow. Although the rose bush produced pretty pink blooms in the spring, it had been an eye sore for most of the year and I just didn't like it anymore. It grew by the butterfly house and that's where I now just want to grow borage which has popped up there and a simple wildflower or two that will probably come up in that area next year. Something I'll mention here is that the common yarrow I've grown is still a green ferny carpet while the 'Moonshine' yarrow had browned up. Oh, it probably would have come back, but I just didn't want that plant anymore, either. And by the way, the common yarrow patch still has some white blooms hanging on.

The patch of common foxglove looks really healthy and green and they are a good size. Of course, this herb is a biennial so they should sail through the winter and then reward me with a lovely mass of flowers come spring. The one Strawberry foxglove that's growing alongside that patch is also doing well still. However, it bloomed for me this year and so its life cycle should end once it gets cold enough. Meanwhile the young dogwood tree in a nearby corner has a few red leaves hanging on and the corkscrew willow has dropped yellow leaves into the garden. At one point during my gardening day, a blue jay squawked. It was perched on a honeysuckle branch.

As I was pulling or digging, I discovered that wild onion has popped up here and there. I like the smell of the stuff. I also enjoyed the smell of dill as I weeded among it and there's a soft ferny carpet of the common variety on the other side of the garden. The autumn season has turned bits of the dill leaves to colors of red, plum, and bronze. Some even looked pink! The 'Bells of Ireland' are dried and browned up and the seed of it by now must be scattered into the soil. Meanwhile, the 'Jewel of Africa' nasturtium flowers are still bright and fresh and there's quite a few left. I noticed that a lot of those blooms are a bright goldish yellow. Next year I don't want any nasturtiums growing where they're at now in the main garden. Instead I want to grow pumpkins in their place. If you remember the leek that I grew this year, it's still out there and it's green.

As for the wildflower garden behind the unattached garage, it's adorned with colors of purple, white, orange, yellow, and blue from cosmos, calendula and centaura. Then add to that the faded pink blooms of 'Cherry Rose' nasturtium which were attracting the honeybees. I dug up some mallow out of that bed.

And in the little garden in front of the greenhouse, there's an aloe plant that I've never brought in and the Texas terragon is still crowned with bright orange-yellow flowers. Meanwhile, the prickly pear sports a reddish fruit. And now I want to share that a new columbine has come up from seed in the fairy garden. I'm assuming that the seed has dropped from one of the yellow flowers of the columbine that's already there, and not from a columbine seed I've sown previously. But it would be lovely to see a columbine with blooms of a different color growing by that yellow-flowering one.

On a final note, it was after 4:30 in the afternoon when I came in from gardening for the day. It had cooled down a little and there was some cloud coverage.

My Garden Diaries :: RE: Kerole's Place

Author: Kerole
Subject: Making the most of spring
Posted: 14 Nov '09 6:58 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 54

Here's some more pics of our Spring. I haven't done the roses justice - they are spectacular this year. I still don't know the name of the standard blush roses that grow along the front of our house, but I absolutely adore them. Subtle, classy, gorgeous form. What's not to love?

General Gardening Chat :: RE: Silly question about Hollyhocks

Author: Cosmata
Subject: Re; Hollyhocks
Posted: 11 Nov '09 3:54 am (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 5

Hi Sea Sonnet,

Well it seems we are in almost the same place. I will be interested in knowing how your hollyhocks fare. Mine so far seem to be rather perplexed (if such a thing is possible for a plant, lol) and a few more perished due to stem rot but some seem quite healthy. I have a set in full sun and I think it is too hot for them, on the other hand, I think I read that they are not shade plants so I am trying to discover a balance that may work for them. Let me know how u fare with yours, and what works and doesn't work for you and I will do the same here.

Best of luck to you.

Cosmata

My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: gordonf
Subject: More Pics from the Sun Yat--Sen Garden
Posted: 8 Nov '09 7:28 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 923

Hi, everyone!

Well, I'm back to posting, but, unfortunately, some of my pictures seem to have been saved in black and white only, so I'll try to post only the coloured ones. Sorry if I repeat a few!

By the way, it's raining quite hard here tonight and the forecast is for a low temperature of 2 degrees C overnight, so I just brought in all of my potted Abutilons and the one Pelargonium that I want to save over winter.

I harvested the last of my parsley and cleaned out the coldframe this afternoon, then put my potted seedlings in for the winter and closed the glass for the winter. I left one corner open just a bit in case we get a series of sunny days before the sun gets lower to the horizon. Eventually it will cross the sky so low down that the coldframe won't get any sunshine to worry about for a month or two! Don't forget that Campbell River is right on the fiftieth parallel (pretty far north)!

Cheers, all, and, for you southern Hemisphere folks, enjoy springtime!!

-gordonf

p.s. - Rats! I see that, even though they showed up in colour and printed in colour, a bunch of these STILL posted in black and white! Oh, well, what to do?? G.
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My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: gordonf
Subject: Jacarandas
Posted: 7 Nov '09 6:45 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 923

Wow, Jack, thanks for the pics of Jacaranda trees with all the vines in them! They're beautiful!! And what a celebration of my (possibly) finding the solution to my imaging problem!

I don't think I've ever seen a real Jacaranda tree, at least not in bloom, and I never realized how lovely they are, especially when they're hosting all the climbing plants that are equally floriferous.

Thanks for your thoughtfulness!

Cheers!

gordonf
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My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: jack two
Subject: Jacarandas are COLOURFUL!
Posted: 6 Nov '09 8:06 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 923

In celebration, Gordon, two photos.

The first I took in Johannesburg last weekend; the Bougainvilleas (Bougainvillea glabra) growing into Jacarandas (Jacaranda mimosifolia) are iconic in Jhb, in shades from brick red to dark purple, but this is, I believe, the best I've ever seen as a composition! The Pretoria pic is from an area where the average temperature is a good 5 degrees warmer; there are three different climbers into the Jacaranda; Bougainvillea (scarcely visible here), Zimbabwe creeper (Podranea ricasoliana)and Trumpet Vine (Bignonia radicans). In addition there is a Brugmansia (Brugmansia candida) on the pavement and between it and the Jacaranda in the garden there is an Australian Flame Tree ( Brachychiton Acerifolius ).

What a sight!!!

My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: gordonf
Subject: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden
Posted: 6 Nov '09 7:42 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 923

Hello again, all!

I was just playing around on UTube and found this explanatory video about the history of the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden in Vancouver. Since so many of my pictures of it have been spoiled, I thought some of you might like to take a look at this video. It's part of two.

Here's the address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOzpIYox2mQ&feature=related

Just click on it to view. Enjoy!

Cheers!

gordonf
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My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: gordonf
Subject: Yet Another Try
Posted: 6 Nov '09 7:02 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 923

Well, I've been busy playing around with my photo editor and I FINALLY discovered a place where it was checked to save images as black and white!!! So I played with the "panorama" feature and finally got this combined image of 2 panels of an oil painting of an African street scene. Let's see what happens this time! I chose this one because of the colourful plant background.

Cheers!

gordonf
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General Gardening Chat :: RE: Please Help my 'Aeonium arboreum/Black rose' Succulent Plant

Author: Sea_Sonnet
Subject: 'Aeonium arboreum/Black rose'
Posted: 6 Nov '09 6:23 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 2

Perhaps you are showering this plant with too much loving attention. Treat them mean, very little in the way of fertilizer and water seems to be what mine respond to.

The stems that have grown way too long could be cut back to 5-6 inches back from the head end and shoved (yes shoved) into some free draining coarse sand - stand back and watch them pick up. Don't over water them - just a trickle once a week is plenty.

If you're at all unsure of this method, just try it with one or two stems and see what happens.

Hope this helps

General Gardening Chat :: RE: Silly question about Hollyhocks

Author: Sea_Sonnet
Subject: Hollyhocks
Posted: 6 Nov '09 5:53 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 5

I have moved from cool temperate climate of western Victoria to a heavenly warm sub-tropical climate on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, and am establishing a cottage garden at the front door, and my tropical oasis in the back yard - we're on a 3,600sqm block of ground. Things seem to grow before your eyes here. I have a packet of hollyhock seeds in my hand, and am about to give them a go here - just as soon as the torrential rain abates. Everything rusts here

Wish me luck!!

My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: MacFlax
Posted: 5 Nov '09 9:18 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 923

Quote:

The fellow in the blue jacket is the guide on the tour. The other one is me.

Very helpful. I'm loving the photos anyway. Hope you can sort the problem out soon.

My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: Kerole
Posted: 5 Nov '09 6:21 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 923

Ah Jeez Gord, I feel for you! Lord knows, you're trying your hardest.